God wants his world to be properly run, but the standard for ‘properly’ is that of Psalm 72: the wise, healing justice of the Messiah’s rule, caring for the poor and needy, confronting and overthrowing the bullies and the oppressors, opening the way for the whole world to be filled with God’s glory. Where that is not happening, the Messiah’s people are commissioned, and equipped by the spirit, to point out the failure and urge people, as Jesus and his first followers did, to repent and amend their ways.
